Steamboat Springs High School students, from left, Summer Dorr, Madi Owen, Payton Wendler and Casey Kirkendall work on a sculpture on Lincoln Avenue Thursday afternoon. The snow sculptures are a Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival tradition.
Photo by John F. Russell

Danielle Haxton laughs while working on a snow sculpture with Mackenzie Holmberg, middle, and Andie Baker Thursday afternoon. The snow sculptures are a Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival tradition.
Photo by John F. Russell

Steamboat Springs High School students, from left, Preston Anderson, Joe Hilterbrand, Jeffrey Seng and Levi Wynne work on a sculpture on Lincoln Avenue Thursday afternoon. The snow sculptures are a Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival tradition.
Photo by John F. Russell

Steamboat Springs High School student Amber Finch uses a shovel to work on a snow sculpture on Lincoln Avenue Thursday morning. The snow sculptures are a Steamboat Springs Winter Carnival tradition.
Photo by John F. Russell

Bridger Boyd performs a trick before landing safely in an airbag at the base of Howelsen Hill. The airbag jam session is one of the new Winter Carnival events incorporated into this year's schedule.
Photo by John F. Russell

Sherry Meadows' fourth-grade Soda Creek students march down Eighth Street in downtown Steamboat Springs toward Howelsen Hill during the school's version of the Parade of Nations.
Photo by Ben Ingersoll

A pair of Soda Creek Elementary School students display the German flag as they march toward Howelsen Hill during the school's rendition of the Parade of Nations.
Photo by Ben Ingersoll

Soda Creek Elementary School student Luke Duksa, right, asks U.S. Paralympics coach Greg Rawlings how his life would be different if he wasn't an Olympian during the school's version of the Parade of Nations Thursday.
Photo by Ben Ingersoll

Soda Creek Elementary School student Paula Effinger waves the American flag following the school's version of the Parade of Nations Thursday morning.
Photo by John F. Russell

Soda Creek Elementary School music teacher Jake Gasau leads Madelyn Yamashta, right, and the group of Australian-flag bearers down Eighth Street in Steamboat Springs.
Photo by Ben Ingersoll

In a complementary pairing of two very different media this week at Circle Seven Fine Art, 1009 Lincoln Ave., Bonnie McGee shows large oil paintings of rivers that are recognizable to Northern Colorado residents, alongside sculptor Sandy Graves’ bronze trout. Her brown trout at the same time are abstracted and faithful to the nuances of the fishes’ form.
Photo by Tom Ross